do you have a favorite food that you love so much that you cannot stop eating it? you always have the ingredients on hand, and you find yourself wanting this thing for breakfast, lunch, dinner?
no? just me?
lately all I crave are sandwiches. homemade, very basic but incredibly delicious sandwiches. and yes, I have had sandwiches for breakfast more than once this week.
my perfect sandwich is almost always exactly the same. two pieces of bread, spread with butter, mayonnaise or mustard, topped with cheese and meat*. this is placed on a baking sheet in a 350 degree oven for 5-6 minutes, so the bread is toasty and the cheese melty. then you top one side with as much crispy crunchy iceberg lettuce as you can pile on there, sandwich the two sides together and enjoy. ooh soo good.
*the bread is Udi’s Gluten Free or New Cascadia Portland Bakery, the butter or mayo is Earth Balance, the cheese is Daiya or Galaxy Foods rice cheese slices, and the meat is tofurkey deli slices or Field Roast. it is all one hundred percent delicious.
what is your favorite sandwich?
do you ever get “stuck” on a food and want to eat it all the time?
nik says
It’s a toss-up between two, but it always starts with superyumful dense many-multigrain-filled homemade-ish bread (okay, I don’t always bake it myself but the local bakery has fabulous multigrain breads). Usually sliced wide and toasted. My two faves are either a hummus-filled grilled portobello with a thick tomato slice and whatever greens are within reach, or cashew butter and fruit slices with cinnamon or apple pie spice or chai spice or whatever I want to experiment with that day. Fruit slices are experimentable too…I love kiwi slices or papaya slices or pear slices, but I’ll try anything! 😉
Kristina Sloggett says
geez, Nik, you are making me hungry! all of those sandwich choices sound fantastic! 🙂
Liz says
Your sandwich makes me hungry! Looks great! ^_^
My favourite sandwich I could eat every day is a soft flour tortilla with cream cheese and sliced cucumbers and drizzled with a little olive oil. Yum!
spabettie says
oh my, that sounds fantastic!
jobo says
Yes! I eat the same wraps and sandwich combos all the time and cannot get enough! Sorta like oatmeal for breakfast, never go wrong 🙂
spabettie says
haa, YES to oatmeal. for some it’s an Every Day Thing… 😉
@bluenotebacker says
Favorite sandwich is really a tough call because I LOVE sandwiches too, just about any kind of sandwich. At home I will put almost anything on a sandwich, and I prefer wheat or whole grain to white bread, but I recently had a ham & swiss sandwich on PRETZEL bread, and it was one of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten. I’d eat every sandwich ALWAYS on pretzel bread from now on if I could, lol.
Also, Reubens. Love those.
spabettie says
ooh, pretzel bread is SO good, and I need to enjoy it more (and I always think it must have mustard on it…)
Reubens are very good too – I make a fun appetizer with Reuben flavors – Reuben rolls with homemade thousand island.
Cheers!
Elle says
That does look good. My favorite sandwich is a pumpkin grilled cheese but I haven’t made one for a while.. thanks for the reminder!
I do get on food kicks occasionally.
spabettie says
pumpkin grilled cheese? that sounds fantastic!
Elle says
Here is the post I did about it… bet you could come up with something great that meets your dietary requirements and now mine too for g-f. I could throw it to you as a challenge if you like… 🙂
Can’t wait to see what you can come up with cause I know it will be awesome!
http://wecanbegintofeed.blogspot.ca/2011/04/smashing-pumpkin-surprise.html
spabettie says
oh, thank you Elle! I was thinking of searching your site for it… 😉 I could definitely do a vegan and gluten free version of this… coming soon! 🙂
[email protected] says
One of the few times iceberg lettuce works, but you gotta have that crunch to your sandwich. It looks great.
spabettie says
exactly – I love lots of crunchy iceberg in a sandwich!
Heather (Where's the Beach) says
I love using Daiya for easy grilled cheese sandwiches. Right now I think I could have chili most days. It’s just so comforting and filling.
spabettie says
and Daiya goes on top of the chili as well, right? 😉
Jason @ Cook Train Eat Race says
LOVE sandwiches. APB&J with homemade blend of almonds and peanut butter on homemade bread.
But also love slicing vegetables thin and then piling them up and using a spread made of soy or coconut yogurt (2 Tbsp) 2 sun dried tomatoes in oil (diced), 1 tsp hidden valley ranch mix, 1 tsp roasted garlic. Spread it on there and go crazy loving it. Want it heated up? I use my panini press.
I am also a huge fan of tempeh so I slice it thin and then pan fry it in hot sauce, soy sauce and garlic. Top with lettuce, tomato, avocado and red cabbage.
Ok, now I’m starving.
spabettie says
hi Jason! wow, I love the sound of your sun dried tomato yogurt sauce – I am going to have to try that! and I WOULD like it heated up, thank you! 🙂 tempeh makes a great warm sandwich as well – once again your version sounds fantastic (and now I am hungry too!). Cheers!
Heather @ Better With Veggies says
I’ve been trying to find those Feildroast deli slices, looks yummy!
spabettie says
I hope you can find it – field roast is SO good!
Chung-Ah | Damn Delicious says
I totally need to try your favorite sandwich version! I actually have all the ingredients on hand! My favorite sandwich involves a fried egg and some sort of meat on a toasted ciabatta bread.
spabettie says
mm, fried egg sandwiches were one of my favorites growing up…
Jess says
Ohh I never thought to actually stick the entire sandwich in the oven like that, what a great idea! I love toasty bread 😉
My go-to lately has involved eggs – – the one I posted about on Friday OR good ‘ol egg salad in a wrap. LOVE it so much lately, so funny how your body craves certain foods on repeat now and then huh? Your sandwich looks delish!
spabettie says
next time you make a sandwich, put it in the oven! 😉 I love that we both shared sandwich cravings – I think I’m in your spam again 🙁
Abby says
Me? The queen of actual OCD? Eat the same thing all the time? I have no idea what you’re talking about. Ha. I eat basically the same things every day in some sort of rotation, and one of those things is a sandwich–either toasted Ezekiel break with sunbutter and a grilled banana or toasted Ezekiel bread with a whole avocado smashed up and sprinkled with nooch and spinach. Sometimes I’ll switch it up and put it in a wrap grilled on the stove for a nice little crunch, but I really love the grainy bread.
I’m not big on fake meats, but sometimes I’ll do the veggie burger/Daiya combo myself. I love a good sandwich!
spabettie says
your sandwiches always sound good – I love avocado on toast. I was in an Ezekiel habit for a while… need to start that one up again!